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  Seeking Asylum is hard business. The chances of being granted asylum are slim. One has to survive all the same. It’s a hard struggle…the search for a “better life” This is one interesting real life story. A documentary; on Abdul, Brian und Farad’s search for a “greener pasture, in the small town Belzig in the German region of Brandenburg. Their imaginations clashes with reality. Sorry it’s in German.  Brian got my interest because he is from Cameroon – he worked on a banana plantation in Cameroon and considers himself a fighter. He suffers from the common misconception that once you make it from Africa to Germany; you are already a “made man”. The opposite is true, he says, and smiles without a sign of self-pity, which is also how the entire film Land in Sicht looks at the phenomenon of seeking asylum in Germany.  Try to Watch it if you can. Don’t have an official link will do so when I have one. For sure, your mum did tell you, life was a bed of Roses…but if

Roger Jean-Claude Mbede. Very few may know him. Well he is or was an icon for gay rights in Cameroon. He died at the age of 35 early this year. I guess it’s no new story to you all that homosexuality in Cameroon is illegal. Homosexuality is punishable by prison terms of up to five years in Cameroon, and the country prosecutes more people for gay sex than any other in sub-Saharan Africa, according to Human Rights Watch.  Many still believe that it does not exist in Cameroon, and even if it does, it’s a sect and easy way out to make money. It’s not my place to judge or argue about its existence or not. But looking at the new Law in Nigeria and its consequences, keeps me wondering what our stand on this issue as Cameroonians are. I know many will say it’s not “my problem”, but these are social facts of the society we live in and we cannot close our eyes and pretend it does not exist! Back to Nigeria…Well you all know my people make good use of every opportunity